Agamede

{{for|the town of ancient Lesbos|Agamede (Lesbos)}}

Agamede {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|ɡ|ə|ˈ|m|iː|d|i}} (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμήδη, meaning "very cunning"{{Cite book|last=Graves, Robert|title=The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|year=2017|isbn=9780241983386|pages=543}}) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history.{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=14}}

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• Agamede was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth.Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0217:book=11:card=668&highlight=agamede 11.740] She was born in Elis, a princess as the eldest daughter of Augeas, King of the Epeans,{{cite book | last1 =Ogilvie | first1 =Marilyn |author-link = Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie | author2-link =Joy Harvey| last2=Harvey |first2=Joy | title =The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to Mid-20th Century | publisher =Routledge | year =2000 | url =https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil | url-access =registration | quote =agamede. | isbn = 0-415-92040-X | page =[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil/page/n113 23]-24 |volume=1}} and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by Nestor during a war between Elis and Pylos.{{Cite book | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | contribution = Agamede (1) and (2) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 57 | place = Boston | year = 1870 | contribution-url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ACL3129.0001.001/72?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=agamede }} Hyginus makes her the mother of Actor, Belus and Dictys by Poseidon.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157] She was called Perimede by both Propertius and Theocritus.Propertius, Elegies [https://archive.org/stream/propertiuswithen00propuoft/propertiuswithen00propuoft_djvu.txt 2.4]; Theocritus, Idylls [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html#2 2.10] By the Hellenistic period (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like Circe or Medea.{{cite book | last =Dickie | first =Matthew | title =Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World | publisher =Routledge | year =2004 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=k3ONA1LMKv8C&q=agamede&pg=RA1-PA23 | isbn = 0-415-31129-2 | page =23}}
• Agamede, a princess of Lesbos as the daughter of King MacarStephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A12.11 Agamede (Ἀγαμήδη)] and possible sister to Methymna,Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.6 5.81.6] Mytilene,Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#M465.5 Mytilēnē (Μυτιλήνη)] Antissa,Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A101.1 Antissa (Ἄντισσα)] ArisbeStephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A119.3 Arisbe (Ἀρίσβη)] and IssaStephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#I339.14 Issa] eponyms also of the cities at Lesbos. Her possible brothers were Cydrolaus, Neandrus, LeucippusDiodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.8 5.81.8] and Eresus.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#E275.17 Eresos (Ἔρεσος)] From Agamede, a place in Lesbos, was believed to have derived its name. The town of Agamede had already disappeared in Pliny's day.Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=5:chapter=39&highlight=agamede 5.29]{{cite book | last =Cramer | first =John Anthony | title =A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor | publisher =The University Press | year =1832 | url =https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft | quote =agamede. | page =[https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft/page/163 163] }} Ancient Agamede has been identified recently with the ancient ruins on a small hill called "Vounaros" 3 km north of ancient Pyrrha.Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in Lesviaka, 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002. https://www.academia.edu/1937262/The_discovery_of_ancient_Agamede_near_Pyrrha_on_Lesbos_island_in_Greek_